> (2) I don't see `redirect_stdio(stout=None ...)` as meaning "leave > stdout alone". I see it as equivalent to some variation of unsetting > stdout, say setting it to /dev/null.
This makes sense, perhaps None could be an alias for a stream created from os.devnull [1]. Then the default arguments for stdin, stdout, stderr would be sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr respectively. I've now created a GitHub issue [2] and a draft PR [3] for contextlib.redirect_stdin. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.devnull [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/92178 [3]: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/92180 _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/35P76FP2H7Y72Q4BMOG7YRVR53LUQWCY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
